Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?: Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies [Paperback]

Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys, comparative research, and systematic use of critical case studies, this book provides a new point of reference by identifying key features of the current, and, indeed next, generation of regionally-based economic development organisations.

1. Regional Development Agencies: A generational story Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson and Henrik Halkier  2. Multi-actor and Multi-scalar Regional Development Policies in the Knowledge Economy Margareta Dahlstr?m, Lise Smed Olsen and Henrik Halkier  3. Regional Development Agencies, Regional Policy, and Knowledge Dynamics: Surveying patterns and trends in Europe Henrik Halkier  4. The Regional Innovation Agencies in Europe: A comparative analysis Francesco Prota, Annamaria Fiore and Maria Jennifer Grisorio  5. The Potential Role of Regional Development Agencies in Achieving the Priorities of Europe 2020 in the Context of the Financial Crisis Leslie Budd  6. Regional Development Agencies and Changing Social Fields: Towards a sociology of regional systems of innovation Borut Ronevi  7. Governing Uneven Development: The politics of local and regional development in England Andy Pike, John Tomaney, Mike Coombes and Anja McCarthy  8. Analysing Regional Development through a Governance-Partnership Continuum: The case of Denmark Peter Wilgaard Larsen  9. Sub-regional Development Agencies: The Finnish experience Jukka Ter?s and Ari Alatosló™